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Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now (#159) -- Minions

Have you ever thought about a series about minions from a group like hydra or aim not the big super powered guys but the cronies of those guys? (Thanks to Stephen Card for the question.)

As much fun as that sounds, I don't have a big interest in writing groups larger than just a few characters. Now, if I were to follow one or two minions around, then we'd be onto something that I'd find interesting to write.

I think the best I've seen done along those lines is the work done with Number 21 and Number 24 on The Venture Bros. I'm afraid I couldn't do it any better than that, no matter how hard I tried.

Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action

Sean
Taylor is an award-winning writer of stories. He grew up telling lies,
and he got pretty good at it, so now he writes them into full-blown
adventures for comic books, graphic novels, magazines, book anthologies
and novels. He makes stuff up for money, and he writes it down for fun.
He’s a lucky fellow that way.

He’s best known for his work on
the best-selling Gene Simmons Dominatrix comic book series from IDW
Publishing and Simmons Comics Group. He has also written comics for TV
properties such as the top-rated Oxygen Network series The Bad Girls
Club. His other forays into fiction include such realms as steampunk,
pulp, young adult, fantasy, super heroes, sci-fi, and even samurai frogs
on horseback (seriously, don’t laugh). However, his favorite
contribution to the world will be as the writer/editor who invented the
genre and coined the term "Hookerpunk."